Professionally, from 1995 to 2020, he held a number of positions which include facilitated numerous sessions of workshops on peace building and conflict resolution, leadership, gender & development, team building, community development and mobilization, project management, entrepreneurship, fundraising, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), ToT, project evaluation and monitoring, strategic planning, board management, human rights and democracy, networking, and customer services given to various Somali Society organizations including, community elders, local authorities, teachers, youth groups, parliament members, women groups like Coalition of Grass-root Women organizations, SAACID Voluntary Organization, and CORD as well as other NGOs/CBOs and networks firm called Center for Training and Consultancy (CTC).
From 2002 – 2011, CTC established working relationship with a various international and local organizations including UN agencies Barrow developed a concept on establishing the NATIONAL Disaster Management Authority and the idea had been accepted by the then President, Mr. Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and his prime minister, Mr Abdiweli Ahmed Gas.
Later, in 2017, the Disaster Management Authority was promoted to ministerial level, becoming Ministry of Humanitarian and Disaster Management of the Federal Republic of Somalia spearheading team of the presidential election campaign of Mr. Hassan Sheikh, who succeeded in the presidential contest in the 2012.
In Hassan Sheikh’s government, Ambassador Barrow was appointed as the deputy minister of the Foreign Affairs and he was holding this position only for one year.
In August 2014, President Hassan Sheikh appointed Ambassador Barrow as his advisor on the parliament and cabinet affairs.